CBSE Questions for Class 10 Geography Life Lines Of National Economy Quiz 6 - MCQExams.com

One of the first West Asian airline companies was Air India, which had its beginning as Tata Airlines in 1932, a division of Tata Sons Ltd. (now Tata Group). The airline was founded by India's leading industrialist, JRD Tata. On October 15, 1932.

In 1953, the government nationalized the airlines via the Air Corporations Act, 1953, which gave birth to Indian Airlines and Air India. Indian Airlines came into being with the merger of eight domestic airlines to operate domestic services, while Air India International was to operate the overseas services. Furthermore, the Act gave monopoly power to Indian Airlines to operate on domestic scheduled services ruling out any other operator. Air India became the single Indian carrier to operate on international itinerary excluding some routes to the neighboring countries which were given to Indian Airlines.

• A large part of NH-7 covers the North-South Corridor of NHDP running over Varanasi to Kanya Kumari(Cape Comorin).
• The highway connects Indian cities such as Varanasi, Rewa, Jabalpur, Nagpur, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Salem, Madurai, Kanyakumari.
  

• Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA) is one of the most common analogue multiple access methods. The frequency band is divided into channels of equal bandwidth so that each conversation is carried on a different frequency .
•  Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA)  is a channel access method for shared-medium networks. It allows several users to share the same frequency channel by dividing the signal into different time slots.The users transmit in rapid succession, one after the other, each using its own time slot.
• Code-division multiple access (CDMA) is a channel access method used by various radio communication technologies. CDMA is an example of multiple access, where several transmitters can send information simultaneously over a single communication channel.

• A single geostationary satellite is on a line of sight with about 40 percent of the earth's surface. 
  
• Three such satellites, each separated by 120 degrees of longitude, can provide coverage of the entire plane the north and south geographic poles.

• Kandla port or Deendayal port is an artificial port created after dredging. It is a port on the Gulf of Kutch of the Arabian Sea, rest all are natural ports.

• The National Highways No. 1 and No. 2 connect the cities of Amritsar-Kolkata.
• National Highway No. 2 constitutes a major portion of the historical Grand Trunk Road built by Sher Shah Suri along with old NH 91 and old NH 1 in India.

• The Deccan Queen is one of the most popular Superfast Express trains that run between Mumbai CST to Pune Junction everyday.

• Delhi - Kolkata mail route passes through some of these major stations:-
• Kanpur, Allahabad, Mughal-Sarai, Gaya, Parasnath, Dhanbad, Howrah.

• The Mumbai port commands the largest hinterland covering the whole of Maharashtra. The Hinterland is very rich in agricultural and industrial resources.

• The Golden Temple Mail is one of the prominent superfast trains that run everyday between Mumbai, Maharashtra and Amritsar, Punjab.
  

• Railway Staff College or National Academy of Indian Railways provides training to all levels of Indian Railway Officers from probationers to General Managers. The academy was shifted to Vadodara in 1952 from Premnagar, Dehradun where it was founded in 1930.

• The Grand Trunk Road built by Sher Shah Suri is the longest road in India connecting Delhi to Kolkata. Its length is about 3670 km.